Powerful PowerPoint for Educators: Using Visual Basic for Applications to Make PowerPoint Interactive

Con clu sion
This chapter has given you a brief in troduction to multimedia, including
what it is and what its ben efits are, and has in troduced you to the design pro cess.
If you plan carefully, you will save yourself time and limit frus tration, and you
will cre ate better projects. Finally, the chapter introduced some ideas for having
your stu dents be mul ti me dia de sign ers. This chap ter was an in tro duc tion to,
rather than complete cov erage of, the design pro cess. You might want to check
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out Ivers and Barron (2002) or Agnew, Kellerman, and Meyer (1996), which
provide more details about the design pro 
cess and using multimedia with
students.
Now that you have a ba sic un derstanding of the de sign pro cess, you are
ready to ap ply it to PowerPoint. The next chapter introduces some of the interac-
tive and mul timedia features of PowerPoint and pre pares you to conquer the ad -
vanced scripting features of PowerPoint in later chapters.
Con clu sion 11

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Tra di tional Mul ti me dia
Features of PowerPoint
In tro duc tion
Some peo ple, even long-time PowerPoint users, are not aware of many of
the multimedia and in teractive features of PowerPoint. Most of this book de-
scribes how you can use scripting features of PowerPoint to make pre sentations
interactive. This chapter briefly de scribes some of the mul timedia and interac-
tive features that do not re quire scripting. You will learn about media elements,
such as pictures and sounds, and you will learn about in teractive elements such
as hyperlinks and action but tons. In ad dition, you will learn about the important
differences in Slide Show View and Edit View when ed iting your slides. Fi nally,
you will learn about Kiosk mode and saving your pro ject as a PowerPoint Show
to con trol how your students navigate through your presentation.
Vo cab u lary
• Ac tion but tons
• Hyperlinks
• Clip art
• Hy per text
• Copy right
• Ki osk mode
• Edit View
• Linked
• Em bed ded
• PowerPoint Show (.pps)
• Fair use
• Slide Show View

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